D A I L Y ----- D O Z E =============== [TODAY in History for September 9] 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion 1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians 1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies 1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies) 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state 1867 - Luxembourg gains independence 1881 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid" 1903 - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated 1908 - Russia takes part of Poland 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army 1922 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens 1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) 1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg 1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies 1950 - Mass arrests of communists in France 1956 - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms 1958 - Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London 1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 1967 - 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V 1967 - Uganda declares independence from Great Britain 1975 - Viking 2 Mars probe launch 1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold 1978 - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army 1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight 1983 - Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) 1985 - President Reagan of USA orders sanctions against South Africa 1993 - PLO recognizes state of Israel 1997 - Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan 2012 - Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad [DICTIONARY: Word of the Day] peplum (PEP-luhm) ~ noun; a short full flounce or an extension of a garment below the waist, covering the hips.
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